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Doing this will already probably kill them, so they must be afraid of worse.
Who would remmain using them after this?
everybody involved knows how this ends, save your paternalistic condescension
I missed that FT piece yesterday. So someone is trying to draw a line from GamerGate to GMErGate.
Versioning is one approach, but I favor making the format extensible in the first place. For example, if you pick an XML format you can add new attributes and tags, if you pick a Protobuf format you can add new fields. “Extensible” sounds like it can be a real mess but there are effective strategies to minimize the mess.

There are also various chunked formats like AIFC (AIFF) and PNG which can be extended by defining new chunk types, without needing to change versioning. AIFC includes the APPL/stoc chunk and PNG has various mechanisms.

There are a few problems with versioning file formats. One is that you often end up with 'if (version > 3)' scattered across your code base or other nonsense. Another problem is that it is easy to accidentally mark the wrong version, either a version which is too low (because you wrote something to the file and forgot to make your encoder bump the version properly) or a version which is too high (because you didn’t bother to use the minimum version your data requires).
Nonsense. People are allowed to make bad trades every second of every day without protection from the platform; but now they develop a conscience and save people from themselves? If this is true, RH and other platforms pulling smiliar stunts should be sued out of existence. Might not be a bad idea to significantly increase taxation on derivatives trading too.
The challenge in this case is that many people want this. They see it as only fair that the little guy should be allowed to invest on the same (sometimes user-hostile) terms as big institutions do. If you pass a new regulation saying that margin calls feel scummy so nobody can offer small investors a margin account, is that really a win for small investors?
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Sounds like a margin call [0] which is absolutely “business as usual” and not something to be upset over.

Some of the margin calls may have been triggered earlier than investors may have anticipated given that (I believe) Robinhood recently adjusted their margin requirements for GME. (It’s also normal for brokers to raise margin requirements on particularly risky stocks, which GME clearly is at the moment)

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/margincall.asp
This story has so many twists. I just bought some today to raise the middle finger after I noticed politicians batting for the hedge funds.
I was confident I would lose it all, but now I am actually thinking this will go to court and I could make some money.
Because there's already a lot of network effects built in to the existing exchanges and crypto infrastructure for trading securities is still immature, albeit promising.
This is blatant anti-competitive behavior on the part of Robinhood and Citadel.

Ultimately, they know that their SEC Fine will be less than the $50B+ in losses they face from their irresponsible naked short selling.

Did we learn nothing in 2008? Are we just going to continue to allow wall street to get away with fleecing everyone else in America / the world?
OK, but they are almost certainly also trading on margin right?

You trade with robinhood's money, then they can decide not to lend it to you anymore for nearly any reason they want. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And that's somehow fine?

It's blatant protection for short positions. These brokers are hamming up the "we need to protect retail from volatility" narrative when they're clearly trying their best to stop their business partners from going bust.

It's sickening.
Then it is declared illegal and simply continues to exist. If this is truly a major crime (loss of life, major financial loss), then governments have many means outside of technology to shut stuff down: old-fashioned detective work, cross-national police work, enforcement of treaty obligations or even para-military action in severe cases.

Right now, a sneeze can ban you on the cloud. And the bans are just a click away - and in many cases not even that.
It looks like I can still buy with my Schwab account?
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Is EFF doing the work to advocate for responsible regulation? Is there an alternative to EFF (Electronic Frontiers Foundation) that is more in line with the spirit of your comment?
A canceled buy order is very different from an automatic sale. Buy orders can be canceled all the time for various reasons, though in this case it's likely Robinhood's well-documented purchase restrictions.

Also that user does not have a blue check.
>> Market manipulation is still manipulation whether you've written it in your Terms of Service (which isn't the law btw like Craigslist do-not-scrape "law").

Yes. And intentionally interfering with supply and demand is the textbook definition of market manipulation — it appears in SEC powerpoints and everything!

https://www.sec.gov/files/Market%20Manipulations%20and%20Cas...
In addition to the power efficiency, one advantage of an e-ink screen is that it does not illuminate a room at night. And interestingly, a Kindle or similar device still seems to be the cheapest way to get a touch-enabled e-ink display of a reasonable size.

FWIW the Kindle Paperwhite also has an Experimental "Beta Browser" that can display websites and execute some JavaScript - I am using that for a similar project, a basic dashboard / light switch web application hosted on a Raspberry Pi.

https://github.com/janhapke/screendle
The only not silly response to that silly situation would be to GME to quickly sell enough stock to stabilize the price at some reasonably high valuation and them maybe use money from that to do some stock buybacks later if it falls to an unreasonable low level.
Ẃhy would his own party be pissed that he made sure the justice department properly investigated bankers manipulating the market? Honestly, I think this is one of those issues that will unify everyone to a common cause, god damn rich people screwing the little guy.
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For pointers to other vertices of this story graph, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25933543.

The earlier thread about class action is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25945447. Not sure if these are the same class action or just the same class action class.

The current thread is paginated like all the other big threads. If you want to see all the comments you'll need to click through the More links at the bottom, or like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25947814&p=2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25947814&p=3

(and so on)
An FHA loan only requires putting down 3%. Assuming a 200k house, an average women is earning that much more than her mother in 3 months.
Duel licensing the contribution is always an option.
you can add contribution agreement with statement like

"all the contributed code will be under duel licensed, original commit will should grant all rights and ownership of it to the XYZ INC/LLP. the copy of it will automatically be commuted to GPL licensed source repository under original contributor's name. "
How bad for RH is this exactly, if some people affected weren’t margin trading?

https://twitter.com/themaxburns/status/1354874931092348933
I wouldn't say 'nearly'. The Capitol Riot definitely fit the standard definition of an insurrection.

Your 'single person' straw man aside, I don't think the conduits of conversation are the right place to attack this problem. It's just far too risky to have utterly unaccountable businesses be in the business of policing what people say.

I have the radical opinion that the police should be doing the policing. If people are criming online (threats of violence, planning to overthrow the government), they should get a visit from The Law.
I see. I think that's a critical piece of context missing in that tweet: "Note: these particular shares were bought on margin. Buying on margin is borrowing money from a broker to purchase stock"

I thought RH was forcibly selling a customer's stocks that the customer had previously purchased with their own money.
Well they now have 1 star on both app stores and can say goodbye to their upcoming IPO. While it is true their rules may have specified such a situation (I'm not a lawyer and not sure how legal this is), they are still a platform that rely on user trust, and they just destroyed any they had. You can't really call yourself "robin hood" when you bow over to the first big guy that shows up.
Is it conspiracy theory, when it's true?
Some people have speculated (big sign reading SPECULATION SPECULATION NO PROOF above this post) it might make sense if RH was trading for itself and taking the other side of its client's trades, like Goldman was accused of doing in '08. In which case they are in big hot water.

ed. yes, on the chance that this wasn't just a margin call
EULA allows them to close out a margin call, but not sell shares held for a client. Selling held shares without a standing order from the client is illegal, no matter what an EULA says.
This is blatant anti-competitive behavior on the part of Robinhood and Citadel.

As i say elsewhere - this margin call was FORCED by RH because they blocked users ability to buy shares as Citadel + others were ladder short selling to artificially lower the stock price of GME, forcing the margin call.

This is horrific, criminal, and should be prosecuted.

Ultimately, they know that their SEC Fine will be less than the $50B+ in losses they face from their irresponsible naked short selling.

Did we learn nothing in 2008? Are we just going to continue to allow wall street to get away with fleecing everyone else in America / the world?
How about using Kubeflow? I am not a user of Kubeflow, so might be misinterpreting it. But here is my understanding.

Requirement:
Use the notebooks used on laptops in production. Be able to scale as needed. Multi-cloud.

Kubeflow:
Kubeflow basically breaks down the notebook into chunks of images, which run as separate pods. These pods are scheduled by Argo workflow - called pipeline. Kubeflow serving enables you to expose the note book as an API. You can schedule different pods w/ different specs, including GPU.

If that meets your need, then you need a simple way to run on laptops - look for miniflow.

There is a tool that is translate from notebook to images directly, so your data scientists do not need to write YAML. Look for miniKF + Kale.

Hope this helps.
With the increased use of closed Web portals, whether bespoke (or more likely, OEM rebranded), or third-party, access to basic course information is increasingly difficult, often hitting a password-protected registration wall.

Emailing faculty or departments directly may offer (occasional) success, as can tracking down reader lists at campus bookstore websites.

There seems to have been a brief golden decade of roughly 2002--2012 when handcrafted professor homepages included course lists and syllabi at least at major universities, both public and private. It's grown markedly worse in recent years.

Open Courseware, under that name frequently, is an exception. M.I.T., Harvard, Stanford, and Cal Berkeley, off the top of my head. CUNY and Columbia likely as well.
The defenses were so poor it was a coin flip whether it would succeed.
So ctrl-c and up arrow wouldn’t work?
The same way public retirement funds in Wisconsin "partially own" Apple.
Until you get rid of forced arbitration clauses, consumer rights are an illusion.
Robinhood begins auto-liquidating $GME shares bought on margin
PSD is horrible, that is certainly true. And underdocumented. And dumb... And we needed to implement read/write support for that in Krita.

But Painttool Sai's format is actively evil, with different kinds of encryption for different size layers and things like that: https://github.com/Wunkolo/libsai/issues/6 (We tried to use that library to implement sai file format support for Krita, but then ran into trouble...)

Manga Studio/Clip Studio Paint's file format is interesting as well: it's just an SQLite database, with raster data stored as blobs. Not going to implement that for Krita either.
They mentioned compiler flags, so my guess would be that they were doing something like tightly packing structs in the release build to lower memory usage or something similar.
I'm able to purchase these securities on ETrade just fine.

Edit: Just called E*TRADE. They now don't allow GME nor AMC trades unless you're closing your position.
As do SoundJack, SonoBus and probably many other similar apps.
Why can you not normalize the scale to 0-4 stars?
It's unfortunate that the one time someone from the opposing party agrees with her she calls back on something they don't agree on (and refuses to work with them because of it).
I've never understood how a slippery slope argument is a fallacy, let alone a logical fallacy (like false syllogism or no true scotsman). The idea is essentially looking at current trends and extrapolating into the future. No prediction is necessarily correct, but it's not necessarily wrong either.
Yep, that's a new development. It looks like APEX Clearing, which Robinhood used to use - and probably still does, though they've been developing their own clearing system at home - has blocked all transactions in these shares.
Are you looking at a particular clause in the EULA? Where do we find the EULA?
> And what repercussions would they face

Nothing worth worrying about. Every single case in the financial sector over the past two decades has resulted in fines that are a fraction of the profits. I mean, you had banks laundering money for cartels, Malasians were looted, etc etc... every single time they fine the culprits a tiny fraction of their profits.

The US has made criminal activity profitable, even if you get caught.

So Citadel and RH probably just made the smart move. Screw the rules, because the punishment for breaking them will be more than worth it.
Sure, no argument from me on here.

You have to admit, though - that is disingenuous. Those plays were profitable, no need to call them (unless there has been irresponsible behavior on the behalf of the broker)
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For public colleges the syllabi have to be available.

Untrue.

They may be, but the practice seems to be fading.
To be fair, terminology now is really confusing. I'm still trying to figure out what is anti-fascist about antifa or that really has anything to do with their existence.
> Now scale this up to several million people.

And many more shares, most of them hold by corporate and institutions (some of those institutions will be happy to lend shares as well). Also more shares can be issued.
Or the opposite, as packing usually requires slower, unaligned accesses.
The comparison is not between Parler and Robinbood, it's a comparison between companies that canceled Parler and Robinhood: Sweeping, unilateral, unaccountable power of institutions we had not appreciated the power of previously.
Some users purchased stock for money. Others purchased the right to buy stock later. Still others trade on margin, or, borrowed money. Robinhood offers all three, and it's not clear which this is, since it conflates the first and the third in the UI.
Thanks for confirming! What happens if this kind of thing happens due to an unintentional bug? Do execs go to jail for market manipulation?
Financial companies all use the same logic to make these sorts of decisions, so yes, there is a very good chance that they independently came to the same conclusion at the same time.
You can get 99% of the way there without solving the halting problem, though. :)
reducesuffering, thank you for making me chuckle.

In keeping with the grand theory that cryptocoins allow the rediscovery of financial regulations and procedures from first principles, the following could happen:

* Coinbase uses the funding to get to the point where they can release a "dual currency" set of stock. One set of stock based on being traditional shares purchased with USD, one set based on being a tied to a "share token" purchased with whatever people choose to exchange (but initially sold by Coinbase for bitcoin). Presumably they would have voting rights per share tied to the conversion between bitcoin to usd.

* The normal shares are regulated in the boring SEC way.

* The share tokens are regulated according to wild west tech rules. Tokens are stolen, token private keys are lost, exchanges rediscover circuit breakers on facilitating token trades, etc.

I think there is also a second story if Coinbase were to release share tokens: Many scamcoins are essentially a way to buy shares in some service that does not fully exist yet, but has great upside potential. If this super simplistic description sounds like investing in stocks, then watching Coinbase share tokens toe the line between "scam coin" and "real deal Wall St. asset" will be an interesting experience.
a bunch of idiots acting like children because they don't know how clearing works, cool
But they haven't blocked trading on GME. They still allow selling of GME.

It's pretty blatant market manipulation.
If that were true then Firefox's autocomplete in the address bar would be all I needed, but in fact I regularly use the different Awesome Bar shortcuts to search either currently open tabs (%) or bookmarks (*). In fact the lack of this feature is one of the things I don't like about Chrome.
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Could it be that people are just so used to platforms, that even in the case of the email protocol, they prefer to jump onto the Gmail platform that abstracts away from the protocol and provides a nice, easy to use platform? If so, "protocols, not platforms" remains justified, and proponents might hope that as people get more comfortable with protocols, they will drift away not only from the Facebooks and Twitters of the world, but also the Gmails.

For me personally, even if we end up with large players offering the largest (presumably most product-focused) instances of various protocols (Gmail with email, imagine Tiwtter hosting the largest Mastodon instance, Discord providing Matrix hosting), the fact I have the freedom to federate and set up my own instance or pay a smaller provider that will respect my privacy, is still a much better situation than the current "platforms, no protocols".
The clear solution is to make Jeff Bezos everyone's dad.
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100% agree.

Pretty sad to see most of HN willfully ignoring this fact and jumping to the defense of Hedge Funds and the billionaire class.
I'm skeptical of the idea that availability of decentralized services should be dependent on the activity of a market driving it. If for some reason, something unfavorable were to happen with that market, the services tied to it would be in jeopardy.

That seems like a terrifying point of failure to have, unless I'm misunderstanding how it works.

Perhaps a parallel here is: if the fiat markets are struggling, then small businesses may struggle and lack the business they need to sustain themselves due to economic fears and self-preservation, but that business can exist in some form without the market through free trade or other means of currency or agreements to provide products and services, not beholden to the mercy of a volatile, inaccessible digital system that the vast majority of people don't understand very well.
> My problem with these arguments is that its meaningless, if this "bad OO" (or "bad <insert paradigm>") is what most developers write.

Only if that's more true than “bad <foo> is what most developers write in paradigm <foo>” where <foo> is the presented alternative paradigm, otherwise we’re comparing the platonic ideal of <foo> against real world OO.

Sturgeon’s Law may not be quantitatively precise, but it addresses a real qualitative issue that must be considered.
Do you have any evidence of this or are you just spamming every thread with the same accusations?
This. It's been an incredibly eye opening week. From news trumpeting that Melvin Capital closed their short position [1] -- which is questionable at best -- to all major US brokerages preventing retail traders from participating in securities that they shorted. This is so surreal that it almost seems like a conspiracy, but i think in reality it just shows how corrupt the market really is and how much power these hedge funds hold. I'm eager to see the fallout from all of this and if SEC will take action. I didn't know that hedge funds aren't obligated to disclose their short positions on 13f. Maybe, for starters, the SEC could prevent them from hiding their shorts.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gamestop-melvin-idUSKBN29...
Yes, exactly. I moved on from r/WSB around 2017. The problem today is that the GME/WSB effect is bleeding outside of the containment board. It's infested every online space that I frequent and as of this week has also moved into meat space.
Sadly it's not supported at all on iOS, since apparently the Signal devs don't believe that people ever lose phones.
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Many platforms I have seen (Amazon Prime Video comes to mind) use:

**** (XX,XXX votes)

when displaying ratings (meaning average 4 star rating, for XX,XXX total votes) -- it is succinct and informative.
See this:

https://alternativeto.net/software/robinhood/
Don't think so. I just rated it now. It seems to work.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/robinhood-investing-for-all/id...
I think the Free Speech problem is really a problem of automatic amplification by platforms that have motivations sometimes opposed to the well-being of the speakers or listenrrs.
There's no conflict between these things. You can run your own private/semi-private repo, mirror to github and use github for the public facing features you're mentioning. That doesn't stop your own repo from continuing to exist (whether or not it is considered canonical or not).
It’s easy to develop a conscience (or the functional equivalent) when you know regulators and press have you in their sights, so yes.
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Do public retirement funds in Wisconsin own >30% of APPL?
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Since you’ve paid nothing, why does Robinhood owe you anything?
> Allowing a stock to become sell only will trigger a sell off and this WILL help the short sellers cover ( may be with reduced loss)

Yes. Blocking opening buyers essentially means that closing short-sellers don't need to compete for supply.
Google News also loves 24 hour, it seems. All "news" about Gamestop is like 24 hours old or older. I almost never use Google News, so I can't say if that's just normal (hm, news, just older than 24 hours ..).
Personally, in hindsight, I think the better course of action would have been to raise the margin requirement on those holdings to 100%. However, I imagine the SEC requires notice of more than overnight on such action which is probably why they have simply stopped trading those issues.

The failure on the brokers then was in not gradually raising the margin requirements the past two weeks when it became obvious that this was a volatility disaster in the making.

The failure of the regulators was, if correct, allowing shorts to be > 100% of the float. They were asleep and should have had a hammer on any dealers who were lending fictious shares.
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Because the logic that comment used for a lawsuit was as follows:

>They are making the price of what you hold fall...they deserve to be sued good and hard for this.

That logic applies to a number of entities and not just brokers. If I can sue a broker for this reason, can I sue anyone for that reason?
There will always be more short sellers to bet on the overpriced stock to go down ;)